CFP: Autonomous System in Robotic Surgery: Current Challenges in Design, Modeling, Perception, Control and Applications
Motivation
The advent of robot-assisted surgery has consistently improved the outcome of surgical procedures by providing more effective and precise medical interventions. Hence, in recent years, autonomous systems in robotic surgery have attracted growing research interests in an enormous scope of applications. Concurrently to the growing needs and requests of sophisticated mechanisms that can help, enhance the medical procedure and in some extent replace the medical practitioners, concerns related to the safety of completely autonomous surgical robotic systems have emerged during the years. Hence, how to integrate advanced designs, modeling, perception, learning, control, and cognition, which involve the highest levels of the imaginative ability to bring the multi-information together and create novel solutions, is an effective way to enhance the level of autonomy of intelligent surgical robotic system and it is becoming an inspiring and promising subject which aim at improving the performance of
robotics surgery. However, there are still many challenges and problems related to safety of autonomous robotic surgical systems and their integration with the medical team which can be tackled only by developing more advanced robotic solutions.
Topics
Topics of interest for this special issue include and are not limited to:
- Autonomous /semi-autonomous system for robotic-assisted surgery;
- Haptic mechanism in robotic surgery;
- Teleoperated system in robotic-assisted surgery;
- Image guided robotic-assisted surgery;
- Human-Robot interaction and collaboration in surgical systems;
- Sensory fusion and perception in surgical robotics;
- Interface in robotics surgery;
- Safety and robustness of robotic surgery devices.
Important Dates
15 October 2020 |
Call for Papers |
10 January 2021 |
Papercept open for submission |
28 February 2021 |
Submission deadline |
28 May 2021 |
Authors receive RA-L reviews and recommendation |
16 June 2021 |
Authors of accepted MS submit final RA-L version |
28 June 2021 |
Authors of R&R MS resubmit revised MS |
31 July 2021 |
Authors receive final RA-L decision |
15 August 2021 |
Authors submit final RA-L files |
20 August 2021 |
Camera ready version appears in RA-L on Xplore |
30 August 2021 |
Final Publication |
Supervising RA-L Senior Editor
Pietro Valdastri
Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Guest Editors
Tokyo, Japan
Yue Chen
University of Arkansas
Arkansas, USA
yc039@uark.edu
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
elena.demomi@polimi.it